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Weight Partners Capital’s Jim Weight and David Jolly on building value in UK healthcare services

HBI spoke with Jim Weight, Managing Partner, and David Jolly, Investment Director at a specialist private equity investor Weight Partners Capital, about the firm’s approach to investing in the sector. They discuss where they see the greatest opportunities, the qualities they look for in businesses, and the role of quality of care, operational expertise and strong management teams. The conversation covered opportunities across areas including mental health, domiciliary care, specialist education and technology-enabled healthcare services.

Bergman Clinics’ Jeroen Cammeraat on building a scalable multinational outpatient platform

Bergman Clinics is a multinational European clinic chain that focuses on elective medical specialist (secondary) care done in an outpatient setting. In a conversation with HBI Jeroen Cammeraat, CEO, explained how being focused on high volume elective procedures that can be done in an outpatient setting makes it possible to build an efficient and scalable multinational healthcare operator.

Interview with HTEC’s Alfred Olivares on AI adoption in healthcare

US-based digital product development and consulting firm HTEC recently queried 253 C-level healthcare and life sciences executives across the US, UK, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on how they are progressing with AI adoption. The ‘State of AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences 2025-2026’ survey found that almost all healthcare firms are trying to adopt AI tools, but most are running into difficulty in scaling them. Alfred Olivares, Managing Partner (HLS) at HTEC, spoke to us about some of the biggest technical and organisational challenges which are hampering businesses.

Structural tailwinds from hospital reform driving growth in German outpatient intensive care sector- Dr Erik Hamann, Opseo 

Germany’s outpatient intensive care market is entering a period of structural change, creating significant opportunities for providers with scale, according to Dr Erik Hamann, CEO of Opseo, a German provider of intensive care services. HBI recently spoke to Hamann about Germany’s hospital reform, increasing regulatory complexity and ongoing market consolidation. These trends are reshaping the […]

Interview with Niklas Kouparanis, founder and CEO of Europe’s largest medical cannabis digital health company, Bloomwell

Germany’s medical cannabis market has been booming since it was removed from the list of controlled narcotic substances in 2024, which made prescribing it much easier. Now as many as one million Germans are being prescribed cannabis, according to the most often cited figure by those in the industry. The majority of these prescriptions are being handed out by digital health companies specialising in cannabis. The largest of these companies is Bloomwell, who HBI sat down with last week at Cannabis Europa (a conference focused on medicinal cannabis).

Private equity has record dry powder, but mid-market healthcare assets remain tightly held —  John DiGiovanni, Inflexion

HBI spoke with John DiGiovanni, recently appointed Head of Healthcare at European mid-market private equity firm Inflexion. DiGiovanni discusses Inflexion’s healthcare strategy for 2026, trends in pharma services and medtech, and the broader market forces shaping its investment approach.

We focus on mission-critical, highly verticalised software for specific operational and clinical needs — Charles Bourgain, Executive Director, Extens

HBI spoke with Charles Bourgain, Executive Director at Extens, about the firm’s sector-focused investment strategy and the growing role of AI in healthcare IT.

Delivering value through an integrated healthcare service platform — Interview with David Rolfe, Group CEO, Ergéa

HBI spoke with David Rolfe, the recently appointed Group CEO of Ergéa, a pan-European provider of Managed Equipment Services (MES) and clinical outsourcing. The company works with both public and private healthcare systems across diagnostics and oncology. In this interview, we discuss Ergéa’s growth plans, opportunities in the European healthcare market, and the key trends shaping the sector.

How European real estate investors and care operators can build profitably and sustainably — interview with Alberto Fernandez, Healthcare Activos

Healthcare Activos is a Spanish specialist healthcare REIT investing in nursing homes, hospitals, mental health clinics and rehab centres across Europe. Currently it has 84 assets under management, worth over €1.3 billion. Healthcare Activos has two distinguishing features which set it apart from the other major healthcare real estate investors in Europe. One is that they prefer to buy individual properties rather than portfolios, as they prefer to pick and choose the best assets based on their fundamentals (catchment area, design, effort rate, operator, lease agreement) on a case-by-case basis. Secondly, and relatedly, they have a strong focus on new builds, which they design themselves.

“We want to be a strong and collaborative healthcare partner for the UK Government” — in conversation with Viren Shetty, Narayana Health

HBI spoke with Viren Shetty, Executive Vice Chairman at Narayana Health, about the rationale behind the deal, the group’s strategy for the UK, and how it approaches international expansion and healthcare investment across markets including India and the UK.

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